ђ

ђ (Cyrillic Small Letter Dje, U+0452) is a letter used in the Serbian and Macedonian Cyrillic alphabets. It represents a palatalized voiced alveolar affricate or plosive sound, often transliterated as "đ" or "dj," similar to the "dj" in English "adieu." Visually, the letter is derived from a modified Cyrillic letter De (д) featuring an ascender with a distinctive horizontal crossbar. Historically, it was introduced by Vuk Stefanović Karadžić as part of his 19th-century reform of the Serbian Cyrillic script, designed to provide a unique character for this specific sound, replacing earlier digraphs and aligning with the Latin letter đ.